MUSICALLY SPEAKING... I AM INFLUENCED BY MANY GENRES OF MUSIC AS MY APPRECIATION AND LOVE OF THE ART IS GREAT. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MENTORS IN THE INDUSTRY IS DENNIS BROWN... TAKE A LOOK AT ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SHOWS THAT HE DID... ENJOY!
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AND MASSIVES!..CATCH ANOTHER "BUFTAH" AWARD WINNING PERFORMANCE FROM 'YOURS TRULY' IN PETER SPENCE'S NEW VIDEO "2 KEYS "...AND NO!!..THOSE ARE'NT REAL PUNCHES..YUH MAD!!..ENJOY..BON
HERE I AM "DUNNIN DE PLACE!!" AT MAXIMILLIANS NIGHTCLUB,B'HAM UK 22 YEARS AGO!......[HAFFE MEK SUM "LIKKLE HURRY-COME-UP SINGER BWOYS!".. KNOW 'HOW LONG' MI INNA DIS TING!]... IT WAS THE UK DJ CLASH BETWEEN PATO BANTON & MACCA B vs PHILLIP LEVI & TIPPA IRIE...IT WAS A CLASH 2 REMEMBER!..BELIEVE ME..BON
AND THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY PARTY @ WALSALL CARIBBEAN CENTRE,UK.. IN APRIL 2002...FEATURING MYSELF,.. LLOYD BROWN AND MR 'CHARMER' PETER SPENCE..DOIN IT " 3 DA HARDWAY!!"...AS YOU CAN SEE...I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!!!!!!....YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!..BON
IT'S BEEN NICE VISITING AND PERFORMING IN PLACES THAT I'VE BEEN OVER THE YEARS..WAY UP IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND...HUDDERSFIELD, IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES..WATCH HOW PETER SPENCE AND THE STAR ''DUN DE PLACE!!!'' UP DEH....
THE SONG 'QUEEN MAJESTY' ..ORIGINALLY DONE BY THE 'IMPRESSIONS MANY YEARS AGO..IS A SONG THAT I LOVE TO SING FOR THE LADIES,AND IS ALWAYS DEDICATED TO THOSE QUEENS AND PRINCESSES OF THE WORLD THAT I ADORE..I'M ONLY ALLOWED 15-20 MINUTES FLIRTING TIME..SO I TRY TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT,..AND TO SERENADE ONE OR TWO MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IS SOMETHING I CAN'T RESIST...HONOUR,..BON
TO REGGAE MUSIC LOVERS,SOUND SYSTEMS,D.Js, FRIENDS AND FANS WORLDWIDE!...A HIGHLY BLESS RESPECT AND WELCOME 2 DA FIRST EVER BONITO STAR MYSPACE SITE! ..SORRY ITS TOOK SO LONG 2 "GET ON IT" SO 2 SPEAK..U KNOW WHAT THEY SAY..BETTER LATE THAN NEVA!!..INNIT!.. WELL HERE I AM 'LIVE' AND IN LIVING COLOUR..AND THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT MORE 2 COME...JUST WATCH THIS SPACE!!! SO FOR THEM AND THOSE OV U WH O WANT 2 KNOW/HEAR MORE...READ MY BIOG,ETC.....NOW THAT I'M UP AND RUNNIN,... I 'LL BE NETWORKING.. AND MAKING FRIENDS WORLDWIDE...AND... I AM ALSO AVAILABLE 4 'LIVE' PERFORMANCE BOOKINGS..{NATIONAL+ INTERNATIONAL!}TEL;+44-07737662592[-BOOKING AGENT].. or +44-O7733440030..I'M ALSO GOOD for VOICE-OVERS,JINGLES,DUBPLATES,FULL CONTRACT PRODUCTIONS 4 RELEASE,RADIO INTERVIEWS ETC .. HOW YUH MEAN!!!.. ANYTHING CYAN GWAARN!!! .......JUST KEEP DA LINK YO!!!
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ALRIGHT!..WHERE DO I START..I WAS BORN ON DA 4TH OF APRIL 1964 IN BIRMINGHAM,ENGLAND,AT DUDLEY ROAD HOSPITAL,EDGBASTON TO JAMAICAN PARENTS CLIFFORD HUGH SNR AND ELIDA HENRY..MY FATHER WAS A CARPENTER,AND MY MOTHER A DOMESTIC WORKER IN A CHILDRENS HOSPITAL..I WAS NAMED CLIFFORD HUGH JNR AT 1 AM IN DA MORNIN..ONE OF SIX BOYS AND FIVE GIRLS......
I GREW UP IN HANDSWORTH FOR THE MOST PART OF MY LIFE..ATTENDING FARM STREET/ANGLESEY JUNIOR SCHOOL..PROGRESSING ON TO HOLTE COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY ..GROWING UP IN SCHOOL HAD IT'S FAIR SHARE OF UPS + DOWNS..I WAS KEEN ON SPORTS...BUT ALWAYS HAD AN INFINITE LUV FOR MUZIK..LOVED SINGING AND DANCING,AND MY BIG SISTER WHO REGULARLY RAVED..WOULD BUY VARIOUS RECORDS THAT WERE PLAYED IN OUR HOUSE..BOB MARLEY,DENNIS BROWN,JUNIOR DELGADO,ERROL DUNKLEY,SLIM SMITH,JACKSON FIVE,THE TEMPTATIONS,JIMMY CLIFF..WERE JUST A FEW OF MY FAVORITES FROM THOSE DAYS.... I REALLY FIRST STARTED SINGING AT AROUND THE AGE OF EIGHT OR NINE.....AS MY MOTHER WAS A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN, AND GOING TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK WAS COMPULSORY...AND SHE MADE SURE THAT I'D SING AT THE MONTHLY CONVENTIONS...THAT WAS THE BEGINING....AT THE AGE OF 16 I LEFT SCHOOL...HAVING A FAIR STANDARD OF EDUCATION + QUALIFICATIONS..I DID'NT REALLY KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH MYSELF..SO I STARTED HUSTLING AND RAVING..GOING TO ROOTSMAN SOUND SYSTEM DANCES..LIKE JAH MASSIGAN,JUNGLEMAN,NYAH ESQUIRE...THEN ON TO DANCEHALL +PARTY SOUND SYSTEMS LIKE OBSERVER SUPA POWA,STEREO CLASSIC,UPPSETTER STUDIO,MASTA BLASTA[NOW LUV INJECTION].,RADICS AQUARIUS,BLACKHEART SOUND[LOVE EXPRESS],TURBOTRONIC,SAXON,COXONE,..SOME OF WHICH I SANG ON OR TOURED WID THEM NATIONWIDE...AND ON THIS CIRCUIT MY SKILLS DEVELOPED AS AN MC/SINGER..EVOLVING INTO THE DANCEHALL SINGER SENSATION NOW KNOWN AS BONITO STAR!!!..................IN 1986,.. I WAS GIVEN A LINK WITH STAFFORD DOUGLAS,...A MAN WHO'D HAD A GOOD CAREER IN THE MUSIC AND SOUNDSYSTEM BUSINESS IN THE UK,..EVEN OWNING ONE OF THE BADDEST AND BIGGEST ..NAMELY "MAFIATONE HIFI..COMING FROM THE LATE 60's..UP UNTIL THAT TIME..HE'D JUST OPENED A RECORD SHOP IN B'HAM..'NOW GENERATION' WAS HIS LABEL..AND THAT IS WHERE I GOT MY FIRST BREAK IN THE RECORDING WORLD..MY DEBUT SINGLE WAS A BEATLES COVER "MONEY CAN'T BUY ME LOVE".. ON THE 'SWEET REGGAE MUSIC RIDDIM'..[WHICH WAS THE 'LICK' AT THE TIME..NITTY GRITTY [R.I.P] WAS 'BUSSIN DE PLACE' WID IT!!]..IT WAS RELEASED WITHIN A WEEK..AND ROARED UP THE REGGAE CHARTS TO TOP TWENTY STATUS AND THUS!!..''..BONITO STAR WAS BORN!''...
OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS I RELEASED NUMEROUS SINGLES...'' JOIN THE POSSE ''[1986]...'' ELECTRIC''[1987]..''SEEMS TO ME''[1987]..THEN I DID A SONG WITH LEGENDARY PATO BANTON CALLED ''ALL WE NEED IS LOVE[1987/88]..THEN WITH GUIDING STAR STAR RECORDS I DID THE GEORGE MICHEAL CLASSIC '' CARELESS WHISPER '' ON THE 'CHILL OUT RIDDIM[1988]..DURING THAT TIME I WAS DOING A LOT OF PERSONAL APPEARANCES[P.A]..DOING LEEDS CARNIVAL, LONDON'S PECKHAM RYE PARK FESTIVAL AND BIRMINGHAM THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER PERIODS..IN 1989 I WAS APPROACHED BY REALISTIC RECORDS PRODUCER JOHNNY WHITE[NATURAL ITES]..AND AN ALBUM WAS MADE..'' A TOUCH OF CLASS ''..TWO SINGLES WERE RELEASED FROM IT..''GROOVY KIND OF LOVE'' AND ''SAVE ALL YOUR LOVE 4 ME'',OF THE TWO,THE LATTER TUNE WAS VOTED ONE OF THE TOP ONE 100 LOVERS ROCK SONG FOR THAT ERA IN THE UK...THEN i TOOK A BREAK..TWAS A QUITE HEFTY BREAK OF ALMOST TEN YEARS!..BASICALLY I WAS MATURING,AND WAS THINKING OF SETTLING DOWN..BUT THE MUSIC HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNDER MY SKIN.. AND I RETURNED IN 1998 ,AFTER MOVING TO LONDON..AND STARTED DOING SOME WORK WITH THE SAXON/STINGRAY CREW[MUSCLEHEAD/DILLY/RAY]..AND OUT OF THIS LIASON 2 SINGLES WERE RELEASED..''WAITING SO LONG[SAXONR ECORDS]..AND ''THERE SHE GOES''[STINGRAYMUSIC]..THEY BOTH DID WELL AND PUT ME BACK IN THE LIMELIGHT...I WAS APPRAOCHED NOT LONG AFTER BY A PROMOTER,WHO OFFERED ME A 3 WEEK TOUR IN VANCOUVER, CANADA..WHICH I ACCEPTED,ANDFLEW OUT TO DO 4/5 SHOWS..WHILE I WAS THERE I MET UP WITH RESIDENT SINGER ZUKIE JOSEPH AND JAHRONIMO[DJ]..AS FELLOW ARTISTES WE HAVE KEPT A LINK OVER THE YEARS,AND THEY HAVE VISITED ME IN BIRMNGHAM UK..IT WAS A VERY NICE EXPERIENCE FOR ME, AS I HAD NEVER BEEN ON A MUSICAL REGGAE TOUR BEFORE.
AFTER RETURING FROM CANADA..I STAYED IN LONDON FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS ,AND THEN MOVED BACK TO BIRMINGHAM..BECAUSE MY MOTHER WAS VERY POORLY AND I WANTED TO BE NEAR HER..SADLY SHE PASSED AWAY..I WAS DISTRESSED,BUT I HAD TO BE STRONG,AS MY MOTHER WAS A STRONG WOMAN AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PLEASED TO SEE HER SON NOT INHERIT HER INNER STRENGTH WHICH I ADMIRED HER SO MUCH FOR..AND SO I CONTINUED ON MY MUSICAL JOURNEY WITHOUT HER..R.I.P MOM...
SINCE COMING BACK TO BIRMINGHAM I HAVE BEEN ABROAD A COUPLE MORE TIMES,NAMELY TO WASHINGTON D.C...WHER I HAVE WORKED WITH,AND DONE SHOWS WITH THE ''STRIKERS POSSE BAND[ICHELLE/YVONNE]..AND LENNY KURLOU AND MONSOON..WHO HAVE NOW STARTED THEIR OWN THING WITH THE ''STORM REGGAE BAND'',WHO ARE CURRENTLY DOING WELL AND TEARING UP THE PLACE WITH THEIR 'LIVE' PERFORMANCES IN THE U.S.A..
AS FOR MYSELF, I STARTED MY OWN MUSIC LABEL''ARIESMUZIKLAB PRODUKTIONZ' IN 2003'..SINCE THEN I'VE RELEASED AN E.P ENTITED ''TENDER YEARS''..AND THEN AN ALBUM ''SKYZ DA LIMIT'' ON LIMITED EDITION..I WAS ALSO A REGGAE MUSIC PRESENTER ON INTERNET RADIO KETCHDIS.COM, PLAYING RUB-A-DUB AND UK LOVERS ROCK.
IN 2008 I RELEASED AN ALBUM ''BONITO STAR AND FRIENDS'' featuring MYSELF, PETER SPENCE, CELIA, TENNA STAR, AND DJ POPPA BIGGIE..IT HAS BEEN MY FIRST POPULAR AND UNIT SELLING INDEPENDANT PRODUCTION SO FAR..SO I AM DESTINED TO CARRY ON..I'VE BEEN PERFORMING ON GIGS UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY..AND ON ALL THE NATIONAL FESTIVALS AND CARNIVALS,NAMELY IN DERBY STOKE,BIRMINHAM..AND THE BIGGEST ONE OF THEM WAS 'LEEDS REGGAE FESTIVAL' ALONGSIDE ACTS SUCH AS WRETCH 32,BOBBY VALENTINO AND LUCIANO.....I BELIEVE I WENT DOWN VERY WELL!!...MY LOVE FOR REGGAE MUSIC HAS A FLAME THAT WILL NEVER GO OUT..WITH MAN LIKE DENNIS BROWN, FREDDY Mc GREGOR,GREGORY ISAACS, JOHN HOLT, SLIM SMITH[but to name a few] LIGHTING IT WHEN I WAS ONLY 8 OR 9 YEARS OLD...from singing in my bedroom..TO PROFFESIONAL SINGER/SONGWRITER/PROMOTER/PRODUCER..ITS BEEN A LONG LONG JOURNEY!..and OVER TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE TO GO WITH IT..I'D SAY I AM NOW TRULY A 'VETERAN'...WHO SEH MI DUN???...MI JUSS AH COME BLOOD!!!..LISTEN TO MY PRODUCTIONS AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF...BLESS..BONITO STAR
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T GET TO THE SHOW..THIS IS MY FIRST BIG PERFORMANCE AS UK SUPPORT FOR BERES HAMMOND & MAXIPRIEST @ WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL 12TH APRIL 2009..SINGING TO A 3000 CAPACITY CROWD...IT WAS A SHOW TO REMEMBER..HAVE A LOOK!
THIS IS ME AND RAS D, "FULLDORSIN!"THE BRAND NEW INTERNET STATION TO HIT DA WORLD!!.....KETCHDIS.COM RADIO..LOG ON YO!
AND THIS IS MY CAMEO ROLE IN LLOYD BROWN'S "UP 2 YOU" MUSIC VIDEO..YUH CAN SEE I WAS 'BORN' TO THE ART!!...WHAT A NATURAL!![ha,ha]..
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HERE IS ONE OF THE TRACKS FROM MY CURRENT ALBUM...IT'S ONE OF MY MORE FAVORITE SONGS..BECAUSE I THINK IT IS ENLIGHTNING AND UPLIFTNG..THE ROAD OF LOVE CAN BE ROUGH!...SO HERE IS SOME FOOD 4 THOUGHT!.. AS DENNIS BROWN WOULD SAY...'' DEDICATED TO YOU AND YOURS ''....BLESS..BON
I WILL ALWAYS BE A FAN OF DENNIS BROWN'S MUSIC..AND EVEN THOUGH HE IS GONE,..HE'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN,NOT AS LONG AS I KNOW I'VE THE ABILITY 2 SING AND IMMORTALISE HIS SONGS...SO HERE IS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS CLASSICS!..SUNG BY YOURS TRULY.. "RAIN FROM THE SKIES"...
THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF MY 'LIVE' PERFORMANCES IN NOV,2008 @ THE QUEENSHEAD PUBLIC HOUSE,REDDITCH... DOING 'STAND UP IN LOVE'...FROM MY LATEST ALBUM..ALSO ON THE NIGHT PERFORMING WAS PETER SPENCE AND CELIA..WE TORE THE HOUSE DOWN THAT NIGHT!!....BIG UP! RED SCORPION SOUND WHO WAS THE P.A FOR THE EVENT...
HAVE A LOOK AT ME WORKING WITH A 'LIVE' BAND..FRIENDLY FIRE BAND!..AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THEM BBAADDD!!!...I WAS INVITED BY THEM TO JOIN IN A '2009' TRIBUTE TO THE CROWNED PRINCE OF REGGAE!...ALONGSIDE PETER SPENCE, PABLO RYDER AND DESI LIONHEART..IT WAS A FULL HOUSE!...AND EACH ARTISTE GAVE THEIR BEST!!..RESPECT TO ALL THE MUSICIANS THAT WAS INVOLVED..ROBIN,MATT AND THE WHOLE OF THE CREW..BIG UP!!!
Wish you a Happy New Year and a even greater 2010 filled with lots of Love, Peace, Happiness, Health, Success and everything else you wish for yourself.
Countries where the people have lost unity, mentally or otherwise, have become playgrounds and laughing stocks of outsiders.
Nobody knows better than We Africans that the policy of divide and rule is the aspiration of those who seek to benifit at others expense......
An age-old technique, which We may expect to encounter again and again in Our struggle to attain independance in fact as well as in name, is summed up in the maxim "divide and conquer."
The best chance for one county to attack another comes through noting the divisions of its people within
It is a sound tactic of military statergy to attack where your opponent's defence is weakest. It is surely sound statergy for all of us to move ahead where such movement is unobstucted and unimpeded
Unity should be the cornerstone of relations among African States for it would ensure confidence and cooperation. Dissunity, on the other hand, while dissipating their strength, always ends in regrettable results.
Our greatest weapon is the oneness which We share as Africans
Hey... I know I may have hit you up about this already lol but a reminder that my RNB mixtape "Mirror Mirror Vol.1" is now available!! If I didn't... well now ya know! Would love to know what you think of it! Come by and let me know... the link is right here!!
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COMMUNICATION GROWS WHEREVER I GO VISUAL AND DIGITAL SOUNDS FLOW YET IT GROWS... MORE INSPIRATION COME WIZ DI WORD KEEP UR POSITIVE VYBZ AND ISPIRATION FLOWS ANTI-NEGATIVE MORE RASTAFARI
BLESSED LOVE RASPEK BONITO STAR AND MORE REASONING... HEIGHTS OF THANKS FI DE LINK INSPIRATOR IS GREAT IN EVERY STATE GIVE A NATURAL VIEW TO KEEP YOU AND I AWAKE INSPIRATOR KNOWS THAT WISDOM SHALL FLOW FI REAL KEEP IT REDDA LOC AND HAVE A PERFECT WEEKEND RASTAFARI
Bless up my lord. jah know mi love da tune deh. everytime i go to jamaica i hear it fi real. jah know bredrin nuff respect. make sure you put a copy aside for me seeeen!! i will link u by end a month. honour & respect Bonito everytime
Thanks !!! and please stay tune for our upcoming shows ..hottest club in cali with 3-6 mafia ,DJ Quik ,fat Joe , club Weber and more ..but please dont mist Oct 16th KB with BZ Bwai ,Sean Kingston and the New Boyz at canes bar n Grill in San Diego !!! please come join us 25$ per ticket hit us up for more info...lol..KB ..new single [ dirty money ]
here we provide you with some info about our new release, the brandnew ASPIRE RIDDIM which is OUT ON THE STREETS NOW!!!
For this release we teamed up with top producer Jr. Blender and created a classical dancehall reggae riddim that is a link between the apart drifting genres Dancehall and Reggae.
The production has 14 Tracks and features some household names such as Gentleman, Luciano, Louie Culture, Lady G as well as newcomers as Nkulee Dube, the daughter of Reggae legend Lucky Dube, who performs her first Reggaesong on the Aspire riddim.
The Riddim Selection is available digitally at Itunes, Finetunes and all other relevant platforms. The limited 7“ Vinyls are distributed by Soundquake.com.
And here the links to purchase the highquality MP3s from Itunes:
HailUp,Idrenz&Sistrinz.. New Tune&New Artist inna mi world sound. Plz come check "CHANT FROM MORNING" by EAZY WAYNE. Thx fi give yur opinion . Blessingz.
Nouveau Tune&Nouvel Artiste dans ma famille de son. Merci de venir check"CHANT FROM MORNING" de EAZY WAYNE. Et merci de lacher votre opinion. Bless.
HERE'S MY MYSPACE 'INTRO' VIDEO....
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